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The Fund for Change Inc

See schedule othe foundation was created to carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the associated jewish community federation of baltimore, inc.

$880k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$745kCivil Rights$665kCommunity Improvement$550kPhilanthropy$396kEmployment$338kEnvironment$321kHousing & Shelter$285kPublic Benefit$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $704k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$24,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$124k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LAW CENTER$50,000
UNITED WORKERS ASSOCIATION$50,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$50,000
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK$42,500
NO BOUNDARIES COALITION$40,000
PARITY BALTIMORE INC$35,000
MARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC$30,000
PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER$30,000
BALT$30,000
ECONOMIC ACTION MD$30,000
JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE$28,875
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE$25,000
NORTH EAST HOUSING INITIATIVE INC$25,000
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK$25,000
HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $25k → 19%BALT: $30k → 19%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $25k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $15k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $13k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 45 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
7

Total granted

$4.1M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

96%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PJ
    PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +28%
  • MP
    MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $221k · revenue +60%
  • NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $179k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • SC
    STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +42%
  • MT
    MARYLANDERS TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

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2
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
3
Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc

Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.

Crime & Legal
4
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
5
Civil Justice Inc

Civil justice is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding legal services for low and moderate-income marylanders facing life-altering legal issues, using innovative solutions that create positive change.

Crime & Legal
6
Business Volunteers Maryland Inc

Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.

Community Improvement
7
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

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8
Maryland Black Caucus Foundati

To educate the community on the adverse conditions under which they are living and propose various methods of alleviating conditions by conducting public forums and publishing studies.

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9
Community Mediation Program Inc

To provide free mediation services in the baltimore metropolitan area for the purposes of reducing interpersonal and community violence. the program also provides community education and conflict resolution training.

Human Services
10
Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal
11
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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12
Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network; the most unlike its peers is South Baltimore Community Land Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $262,500 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP…NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $178,500 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES COAL…Community Development Network of Maryland Inc: $95,450 · Community ImprovementCommunity Developm…GREATER BAYBROOK ALLIANCE INC: $85,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER BAYBROOK A…Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development Inc: $60,000 · Community ImprovementBaltimoreans Unite…GREENLIGHT FUND INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $220,640 · OtherMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORKBLACK GIRLS VOTE INC: $120,000 · OtherBLACK GIRLS VOTE INCHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $105,000 · OtherHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INCTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF B…BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $65,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ALCOHOLISM & DRUG: $65,450 · OtherJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $121,825 · OtherJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INCMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $115,000 · OtherMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INCFOOD & WATER WATCH: $75,000 · OtherSOUTH BALTIMORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $90,000 · OtherJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC: $87,500 · OtherYOUTH AS RESOURCES INC: $65,000 · Other+20 more: $581,450 · Other+20 moreUnited Workers Association Inc: $250,000 · Public BenefitUnited Workers…MARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION INC: $135,000 · Public BenefitMARYLAND CONSU…CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $90,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POP…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $75,450 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE E…+1 more: $15,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $225,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC JUSTICE…COMMUNITY LAW CENTER INC: $175,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LAW …OUT For JUSTICE INC: $80,000 · Crime & LegalOUT For JUSTIC…MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC: $47,500 · Crime & LegalMARYLAND VOLUN…+1 more: $15,000 · Crime & LegalPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH EAST HOUSING INITIATIVE INC: $110,450 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT OWN INC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterMARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC: $145,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $106,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE GREEN SPACE: $35,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INC: $10,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$711,450Other$1,811,865Public Benefit$565,450Crime & Legal$542,500Housing & Shelter$270,450Education$270,000Environment$176,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $262,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Workers Association Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $225,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $220,640 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $178,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LAW CENTER INC: $175,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC: $145,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION INC: $135,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $125,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $121,825 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $115,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetNORTH EAST HOUSING INITIATIVE INC: $110,450 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $106,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Development Network of Maryland Inc: $95,450 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetSOUTH BALTIMORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $90,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC: $87,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER BAYBROOK ALLIANCE INC: $85,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetOUT For JUSTICE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $75,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ALCOHOLISM & DRUG: $65,450 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetYOUTH AS RESOURCES INC: $65,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBaltimoreans United in Leadership Development Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCASA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE EDUCATION FUND INC: $50,450 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $47,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPREPARE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBALTIMORE GREEN SPACE: $35,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT OWN INC: $35,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBaltimore Action Legal Team Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMARYLANDERS TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetStep Up Maryland Incorporated: $15,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Zanvyl and Isabelle K…The Abell Foundation …Baltimore Community F…Annie E Casey Foundat…Alliance for Open Soc…Foundation to Promote…France-Merrick Founda…The Jacob and Hilda B…Associated Jewish Cha…The United Way of Cen…The Morris Goldseker …Hopewell Fund
Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund IncMD72.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Hopewell Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fund for Change Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fund for Change Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Parity Baltimore Incorporated: 11% of income from government
  • South Baltimore Community Land Trust Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Fund for Change Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Fund for Change Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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